Politics: Corruption & Immorality

​November 9, 2016Hillary versus Donald: Ding Dong, The Witch Is Dead! Victory for the Wizard of Oz!By Diana Johnston | Global Research​“There’s no place like home.” That’s the lesson. Even when home is Kansas. The real meaning of this election is not, as bitterly disappointed Hillary supporters still maintain with tears in their eyes and fear in their throats, a victory for racism and sexism. The real meaning of this upset is that Wall Street’s globalization project has been rejected by the citizens of its homeland. This has major implications for the European nations that have been dragged along into this ruinous project. Hillary Clinton was the candidate of the military industrial complex and international finance capital. She designed herself to be the figurehead of those forces, as queen of regime change. She aspired to be the one to remake the world in the image Wall Street dictates. It was a project enthusiastically and expensively supported by the one percent who profit from arms contracts and the trade deals they write themselves for their own interests. To distract from the genuine significance of her candidacy, the Clinton campaign appealed to the desire for respectability of educated city dwellers, portraying Trump supporters as racist yokels motivated by a hateful desire to scapegoat minorities as revenge for their own inadequacies. They were “deplorables”, and you wouldn’t want to be one of them, would you?Trump was sexist, because he referred to certain women as “bimbos”. Elizabeth Warren called him out for this, on a platform where Hillary sat listening, mouth wide open in delight – she who had referred to Bill’s girlfriends as “bimbo eruptions”. Sleaze and hypocrisy drowned out policy discussions. The worst the Clinton campaign could come up with was an eleven-year-old locker room exchange – just words, hardly comparable to Bill’s chronic actions. (full story)

BILL CLINTON AND THE SELLING OF AMERICA'S NATIONAL SECURITYby Roger Stone | NewsWithViews.comThis may be the greatest scandal in 50 years of American history. It makes Watergate look like a jay walking charge. It makes the Iran Contra affair look like a small time operation. This is what House Republicans should have Impeached Bill Clinton for instead of lying about a White House Intern giving him head in the Oval Office. It’s called treason.

​PART ONE: RUSSIA Bill Clinton is at the center of the greatest foreign policy deceit ever perpetrated on the American people. He used the power of his office to allow the selling and delivery of high tech missile defense components to governments of countries that are listed as threats to this country and the stability of the world. Russia was one of the benefactors of deals Clinton made without proper authorization from Congress. Ignoring CIA and Pentagon reports that showed how Russia was continuing a major and secretive modernization program for its strategic nuclear missile systems, Clinton allocated over $1 billion to “help” the Soviets “dismantle” their nuclear weapons. In 1995 the General Accounting Office (GAO) wrote that Moscow refuses to permit American audits of the $1.25 billion disarmament aid. This is an important issue because it allowed the Russians to use American taxpayer's money to build new offensive nuclear weapons that directly threaten the United States. (full story)

by Paul Joseph Watson | Infowars.comDuring his interview with Sean Hannity on Fox News last night, Julian Assange suggested that “powerful actors” were taking “revenge” on him by targeting the Wikileaks founder’s family.

“I have been detained illegally, without charge for six years, without sunlight, lots of spies everywhere,” said Assange, appearing emotional.“It’s tough… but that’s the mission I set myself on. I understand the kind of game that’s being played – big powerful actors will try and take revenge…it’s a different thing for my family – I have young children, under 10 years old, they didn’t sign up for that… and I think that is fundamentally unjust… my family is innocent, they didn’t sign up for that fight.”During the interview, which was coincidentally aired on January 3rd, the birth date of murdered DNC staffer Seth Rich, Assange reiterated his assertion that WIkileaks’ source for the DNC and John Podesta documents was not Russia or any state actor.When Hannity asked Assange if his source was within the United States, the Wikileaks founder responded, “I don’t want to constrain whether it was someone within the United States, in the DNC, in the service providers that provide for the DNC or outside etc, I think we have already pushed it quite a lot.”Although refusing to name sources, Assange has indicated on more than one previous occasion that Rich was the source for the DNC leaks.Rich was mysteriously murdered on July 10 in a case that remains unsolved. Wikileaks subsequently offered $20,000 dollars for information leading to the capture of his killer.Could Assange’s concerns over what happened to Seth Rich be the reason why he is now putting his fears for his family on the record?

UK Government now hailed as Leading World Democracy with Snoopers Charterby Sam Johnson | World Corruption Monitor

Well its official, the UK government will go down in history as being at the forefront of taking away any last vestige of democratic rights from its citizens with the passing into law the so called ‘snoopers charter’. What a joke. If anyone had any doubt of the real motive behind this brain dead legislation as being anything other than control and suppression of UK citizens, then think again. Case in point. Isn’t it amazing that the only amendment to the snoopers charter bill passed by MPs in parliament was to protect from – God forbid - being spied upon themselves! No, we certainly couldn’t stand to have our exemplary government officials being spied upon – that would be a terrible affront to Democracy!But giving up your privacy is for a good cause as we're now going to get those nasty terrorists. Maybe, but first we should ask ourselves who exactly are the terrorist here anyway? There are enough well documented false flag operations that have occurred over the last decade in the western world to convince even the greatest sceptics there is more going on than meets the eye. Its false flag operations like Charlie Hebdo that catapulted the Snoopers Charter Act through parliament in the first instance – ironically all under the guise of protecting us. Isn’t it fair to say that by anybody’s definition, terrorism should also include any group or organization that aims to take away a citizen’s right to privacy. And to claim the UK now has the greatest legislation in the western word which not only exposes those bad terrorists but is also totally transparent is nothing short of ludicrous – not to mention the ultimate hypocrisy. So what’s next? As Edward Snowden would say, ‘Sometimes the scandal is not what law was broken, but what the law allows.’

When former U.N. ambassador John Bolton complained that “staff changes in the White House” have made it impossible for him to present his views to the president, most took it as a sign of Chief of Staff’s John Kelly policy to control access to Trump.But Mike Cernovich, author of the Trump Dispatches blog and a known promoter of White House conspiracy theories, has taken Bolton’s complaint literally. In an interview with Breitbart News, the right-wing website now headed again by ousted Trump adviser Steve Bannon, Cernovich said he had inquired with White House insiders and concluded that Trump is “on house arrest” in his own home.Breitbart’s editor in chief Alex Marlow, who interviewed Cernovich, weighed in, naming Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump as among those responsible for Trump’s forced isolation.“You’ve got Kushner, you’ve got Ivanka Trump, Gary Cohn, Dinah Powell, H.R. McMaster,” he said. “And it’s just overwhelming and now with no Bannon and with no Gorka, just where is the President getting information that can tie him, connect him to his own base?”Cernovich singled out Kelly for shutting out Trump and for allegedly taking away his phone, to which Marlow responded: “Coup is a strong word, but it’s very hard to argue against it at this point.”

Turkish President Erdogan’s description of the Dutch as "Nazi remnants and fascists", is about as hypocritical as it gets. A quote from the BBC from the recent past indicated, ‘The Turkish FM was due to speak in the Dutch city of Rotterdam in support of a referendum to give Mr. Erdogan greater powers. But the rally was banned for security reasons, and the minister's plane was then refused permission to land.’Turkey's President (or more accurately self-imposed Dictator) Erdogan has more in common with the Nazis and Hitler than anyone in the Netherlands ever thought of having. Let’s look at the similarities:

Both Hitler and Erdogan promoted and carried out ethnic cleansing in their respective countries. It’s no secret Hitler's hatred of the Jews and the proof is in the pudding with the well known extermination of over 6 million Jews. But no doubt Erdogan would deny any wrongdoing on his part regarding ethnic cleansing of the Kurds. However, Erdogan’s hatred of Kurds is well documented and his government forces are responsible for having eradicted large numbers of Kurds to date.

Both are were self-appointed dictators

Both had a cult-like following of certain factions of their respective citizens

Both are/were responsible for their respective governments carrying out large scale purges of dissenting voices of citizens within their respective countries.

And the hypocrisy factor that runs rampant with all dictators is certainly not lacking in Turkey. Erdogan represses his own people from expressing any view that comes close to contradicting his own. Yet he spouts off in a recent public speech calling the Dutch ‘Nazi remnants and fascists’ for blocking his FM from speaking in the Netherlands. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black. And just why have the Dutch refused Turkey’s Foreign Minister from delivering a referendum supporting rally on Dutch soil? Ironically, for the very reason Erdogan has falsely accused the Dutch – re: promoting fascism in his own country by holding a farcical referendum so he can follow in Hitler’s footsteps.A quote from Sputniknews.com in a recent article about Erdogan’s brutal crackdown on the Kurds presents more evidence of the Hitler - Erdogan analogue:“The situation in the Kurdish-populated regions is dire. For example, in the town Cizre, Sirnak Province, tanks were positioned in the streets, fire fights constantly are taking place and artillery fire has turned buildings into ruins.”"Many quarters of the town are turned into trenches. A similar tactic of constant tank shelling was used when destroying Jewish quarters by Hitler forces," Dicle described the situation in Sirnak.”Of course, there are those who will argue the Turkish people actually want Erdogan as their dictator which will no doubt be proclaimed after the upcoming referendum seals Erdogan’s dictator status. However, outside of Erdogan’s loyal cult, there are plenty of Turks who are against his dictatorial aspirations like the 125,000 plus Turkish citizens who were rounded up, fired from their jobs, or placed under investigation or arrest in Erdogan’s post July 2016-coup attempts to muzzle any and all remaining descent. And regarding the referendum, let’s not forget the famous quote from Joseph Stalin, “The people who cast the votes decide nothing, the people who count the votes decide everything.”

“In politics nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

The news today is that James Comey revealed classified information in the memos he leaked. There is nothing new here so why has it suddenly gone mainstream? For the answer you have to know the players. First, Comey knows too much. He did his best to navigate the swamp while he was the F.B.I. director but Washington’s criminal elite now needs a fall guy and his handling of the Clinton email investigation angered people on both sides of the political divide so he’s the perfect sacrificial lamb. Trey Gowdy, one of Washington’s few legitimate men of integrity and a frequent critic of Jim Comey recently said: “I’ve had plenty of differences with Jim Comey, I want to be really clear about that, but I think history is going to be much kinder to Comey over his July press conference [in which he declined to prosecute Hillary] than the Democrats were when he had it. I think he had access to information that, because he’s a stand-up guy who’s not going to decimate classified information, although God knows everyone else is, he’s not going to [release] it even if it casts him in a negative light.” Gowdy is talking about something we reported almost two months ago. After working the case for over a year Comey realized that damned near the entire government was involved. One agent with intimate knowledge of the case characterized Comey’s dilemma this way: “There is enough for her and the entire government to be brought down. People do not realize how enormous this whole situation actually is. “The problem is with the Clinton Foundation as I mentioned, which you should just imagine as a massive spider web of connections and money laundering implicating hundreds of high-level people. ““…This case would explode into a million other cases if fully brought to light, and then we would be one agency competing against the entire government and a hoard of other interests. It is a very tense and uncomfortable position.” Comey chose to avoid a “massive sh*tstorm,” as the agent characterized it, that would’ve resulted from exposing the entire globalist power structure. That is why Comey allowed Hillary and everyone close to her to scrub and then destroy their personal computers and devices rather than conduct a proper investigation in accordance with standard F.B.I. collection of evidence procedures. The only thing that stood in the way of Comey succeeding in protecting the Clintons’ criminal syndicate was the NYPD discovery of Anthony Weiner’s laptop that had almost all of the evidence that Comey has sought to eviscerate. While it’s true that Comey is a dirty cop who should not be forgiven for turning his back on his responsibility to ferret our corruption wherever he found it, that is not the reason he’s now the target of Washington’s swamp. Quite the opposite is the reason, in fact. Clinton co-conspirators are growing more and more desperate to stop President Trump from fulfilling his campaign promise to drain the swamp and James Comey – who knows where all of the skeletons are hidden – must be discredited prior to cutting a deal to tell Trump’s investigators what they want to know in order to save his own bacon. Whatever we suspected about the Clintons’ criminal actions, Trey Gowdy just told us it’s a whole lot worse than we ever imagined.

March 25, 2017Obama was Almost Certainly Illegally Spying on Trump Team

by Alex Newman | NewAmerican

Former President Barack Hussein Obama and some of his top officials may be in serious trouble, analysts suggested, as it appears increasingly likely that they played a key role in illegal surveillance of Donald Trump and his team for the apparent purpose of sabotaging his presidency. But despite Democrat efforts to muddy the waters, the explosive scandal may be just getting started. Various players in the saga continuing to throw out fresh allegations, some of which, if true, could potentially land prominent current and former officials in hot water or even behind bars. And now, despite the FBI refusing to cooperate on the investigation, reports suggest there is “smoking gun” evidence proving that the Obama administration illegally spied on team Trump. (full story)

Trey Gowdy Stops Just Short Of Calling Collusion On The Clintons And The DOJby Amber Athey | dailycaller.comRepublican South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy said on Fox News Tuesday night that the Clintons’ “entanglements” with the Department of Justice run much deeper than the average viewer may know.On Fox News’ “The Story,” Gowdy cryptically told host Martha McCallum that he believes “history will be much kinder to Jim Comey in that July press conference than the Democrats were.”“I think he had access to information that, because he is a stand-up guy he’s not gonna disseminate classified information (though God knows everybody else is)…so all your viewers see is this meeting on the tarmac,” he explained.“Jim Comey had access to additional information that I am convinced left him with no other choice but to make the decision he made in July,” Gowdy said. McCallum asked if he was implying that Comey was pressured into clearing Clinton of all wrongdoing. “No…he wanted to safeguard the integrity of the investigation, the integrity of the process, and I probably ought to just leave it right there,” Gowdy replied.“Trust me when I tell you this, Martha — I know what it was and I have been a critic of James Comey in the past. But he made the only decision he could have made with respect to appropriating that decision away from the Department of Justice and making the decision himself.”

“I only take away from that that you are suggesting that there were more entanglements between the Clintons and perhaps the Justice Department than everyone understands,” McCallum guessed. “You’re very perceptive,” Gowdy confirmed.

Globalist French President Macron Gets To Work Empowering EUBy Alex Newman | The New American

The ruling establishment in Europe, along with its globalist agent, Rothschild banker and new French President Emmanuel Macron, appear to be absolutely tone deaf to the growing outrage across the continent. Even as the United Kingdom works on seceding from the controversial European Union superstate, and most French people want a vote on whether to even remain under the Brussels-based regime's thumb, Macron is pushing hard to accelerate the EU war on self-government, borders, and nationhood. Other globalist leaders of formerly sovereign EU member states — especially Macron ally and German Chancellor Angela Merkel — are doing the same. But across Europe, the public is getting fed up. At the top of Macron's to-do list is a push to grant vast new powers to the EU. Among other schemes, the new French president is hoping to impose a “common budget” and a “joint finance minister” on the entire eurozone. Because not all nations ensnared in the EU have succumbed to Brussels' globalist bullying to surrender their own national currencies, Macron also wants to create a “two-tier” EU. Under his vision, those governments that have already had the euro imposed on them would move ahead on surrendering what little self-government remains, while the other governments would catch up later — perhaps after an engineered crisis is used to create some support for the euro in those nations. As part of the agenda to help the EU usurp even more sovereignty and powers from nations, Macron has agreed to help push through reforms to the treaties that underpin the EU to facilitate “profound reforms” that further strengthen the supranational regime. Indeed, speaking at his inauguration, Macron pledged to “relaunch” Europe, granting vast new powers to the unelected hordes of bureaucrats that now make the bulk of the laws and regulations that govern the formerly independent peoples of Europe.Among the latest ideas being floated is the creation and selling of “eurobonds,” allowing the EU to raise money by imposing debt on all the peoples of Europe and helping put all European taxpayers on the hook for the wild spending of bloated socialist regimes such as those ruling France and Greece. An EU-imposed migration and asylum policy enforced on all members, presumably perpetuating the tsunami of Islamic immigration from the Middle East and Africa, is also being discussed. That could see migrants forced on nations such as Hungary, Poland, and the Czech Republic, which have fiercely resisted the influx of millions of Third World arrivals flooding into Germany, Sweden, Italy, Greece, and other European countries. The establishment, its political hacks, and its propaganda organs rushed to paint Macron's victory as a “mandate” to keep the borders open while surrendering what little remains of national sovereignty and self-government. However, left unsaid is that most French voters support holding a referendum on EU membership, and a ban on further Islamic immigration, according to polls taken shortly before the presidential election. Also left unmentioned by the establishment media were widespread accusations of fraud and electoral irregularities, seemingly all of them favoring Macron. Despite all those facts, the dishonest media narrative was, in essence, that the French have voted to surrender all power to the EU and throw open their borders forever. But in the real world, that is far from the case. Last time the French were asked to vote on dramatic usurpations of power by the EU superstate — a huge power-grab marketed as the so-called EU “Constitution” — it went down to a humiliating defeat. However, globalists simply renamed the scheme the “Lisbon Treaty,” claimed it no longer needed approval from voters, and rammed it through anyway. Obviously, the globalist establishment stealing Europeans' right to self-government has learned its lessons. Indeed, earlier this year, EU Council boss Robert Fico urged governments to quit letting citizens vote on important matters.One of Macron's first acts as president was to fly to Berlin and grovel before Merkel, a communist propagandist for the murderous East German dictatorship before re-inventing herself as a “conservative” to win elections and open Germany's borders to millions of Third World migrants. A genuine photo of Macron sitting at Merkel's feet was used by his critics to paint him as a puppet of out-of-control German authorities. But Merkel enthusiastically returned the favor. “Macron carries the hopes of millions of French people and also many in Germany and across Europe,” Merkel said, adding that she was “very pleased” with his win on a “courageous, pro-European campaign.”( Full Story)

Iraq: Will Tony Blair Finally Stand Trial for His Part in the “Supreme International Crime”?By Felicity Arbuthnot | Global Research

Millions would surely agree, including a swathe of the media, as encapsulated by media correspondent Roy Greenslade (4) exactly a year ago, on the publication of the Chilcot Inquiry. The sub-heading was:“Without exception, the ‘feral beasts’ of the press tear the former Prime Minister apart over the Iraq invasion, leaving his reputation in tatters.”A few front page examples were: “Chilcot Report into Iraq war delivers harsh verdict on Blair” (Financial Times); “A monster of delusion” (Daily Mail); “Weapon of mass deception” (Sun); “Blair’s private war” (Times); “Blair is world’s worst terrorist” (Daily Star) and “Spinning on their graves” (Independent). The Mail cited: “the duplicitous, dishonest, secretive, shallow and incompetent conduct of Tony Blair…” (full article)

August 14, 2017Exclusive: Tony Blair's Middle East envoy work - secretly bankrolled by wealthy Arab stateby Edward Malnick | The TelegraphTony Blair's work as a Middle East envoy was secretly funded by a wealthy Arab state which also employed him as a paid adviser, leaked emails seen by the Sunday Telegraph reveal.The United Arab Emirates quietly financed Mr Blair's London office while he also received millions in consultancy fees from the state and the sovereign wealth fund of its capital, Abu Dhabi.A senior Foreign Office official acting as Mr Blair's chief of staff in his role as Quartet envoy was also used for assignments connected to his private consultancy empire.The disclosures will raise serious questions over potential conflicts of interest between Mr Blair's public and private work.He has always insisted that his public and private work was kept entirely separate, and has denied that Quartet staff were involved in "commercial work".However, following questions by this newspaper Mr Blair has now been forced to admit that he received money from the UAE into the same company to bankroll both his role as the unpaid official envoy to the Middle East - and private consultancy work funded by the Gulf state.The UAE's contributions to Mr Blair's Quartet work were never disclosed on the website of the Office of the Quartet Representative despite a "funding" page declaring other sources of income, including from the US, Canadian and UK governments.Emails seen by the Telegraph show that just over a year after Mr Blair left Downing Street and became Quartet representative, Nick Banner, his chief of staff in the envoy role, travelled to UAE to meet Khaldoon Al Mubarak, the chief executive of Mubadala, the sovereign wealth fund for which Mr Blair began paid advisory work the following year.Mr Blair's office this week declined to explain the purpose of the meeting with Mr Al Mubarak, who also chairs the Abu Dhabi government's Executive Affairs Authority.The following month, Mr Banner, a Whitehall official on loan from the Foreign Office, was tasked with arranging talks between UI Energy, a Korean oil company the former prime minister was being paid to advise, and the head of a state-run investment firm in Abu Dhabi.Mr Blair's work for the Korean firm was not publicly disclosed for another two years, because he repeatedly told Whitehall’s Advisory Committee on Business Appointments that the company was concerned about "market sensitivities".The emails show how ahead of Mr Banner's involvement, Mr Blair had secured the backing of Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the UAE foreign minister, in bringing the UAE figures to the table in August 2008.During his time as Quartet representative he held numerous official meetings with Sheikh Abdullah in his envoy role. (full article)

​It appears the obstruction of justice attack against President Trump has backfired on his enemies. In the wake of fired FBI Director James Comey’s theatrical testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee June 8, the Senate Judiciary Committee announced it will hold hearings to “examine then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch’s involvement in the Clinton email server investigation.” ​Comey’s testimony — which has been cherry-picked by the liberal mainstream media as the basis for assumed wrongdoing by President Trump — contained some bombshells for the liberal establishment. In particular, he testified that Attorney General Loretta Lynch told him not to call the Clinton e-mail investigation an “investigation,” but to refer to it as a “matter.” The issue of Lynch interfering in the investigation of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a private e-mail server was first raised when Comey was asked by Chairman Richard Burr (R-N.C.) about whether his decision to go public with the details of that investigation was “influenced by the Attorney General's tarmac meeting with the former president, Bill Clinton?” Comey said it was because he felt he “had to do something separately to protect the credibility of the investigation, which meant both the FBI and the Justice Department.”Burr asked if there were “other things that contributed to that, that you can describe in an open session?” Comey answered, “Probably the only other consideration that I guess I can talk about in open setting is that at one point the attorney general had directed me not to call it an investigation, but instead to call it a matter, which confused me and concerned me, but that was one of the bricks in the road that led me to conclude I have to step away from the department if we're to close this case credibly.”He made similar statements when Senator John Cornyn (R-Texas) asked follow-up questions on that topic, going so far as to agree with Cornyn that he believed Lynch “had an appearance of a conflict of interest on the Clinton e-mail investigation,” saying, “That’s fair. I didn't believe she could credibly decline that investigation. At least not without grievous damage to the Department of Justice and to the FBI.”This meshes very nicely with a report by the New York Times in April that made mention of a “document, which has been described as both a memo and an email” that came to the attention of the FBI. That document has ousted DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s digital fingerprints all over it. As the Times reported:During Russia’s hacking campaign against the United States, intelligence agencies could peer, at times, into Russian networks and see what had been taken. Early last year, F.B.I. agents received a batch of hacked documents, and one caught their attention.The document, which has been described as both a memo and an email, was written by a Democratic operative who expressed confidence that Ms. Lynch would keep the Clinton investigation from going too far, according to several former officials familiar with the document.Hamstringing the investigation by ordering the FBI director to mislead the public by calling it a “matter” instead of an investigation perfectly fits the description of keeping “the Clinton investigation from going too far.” After all, an investigation might “go too far” for those who wanted to protect Clinton, but a “matter” never ran that risk. Lynch’s interference also perfectly fits the description of “obstruction of justice.” (full article)

April 9, 2017Evidence Calls Western Narrative About Syrian Chemical Attack Into Questionby William Craddick | Disobedient NewsThe April 4th, 2017 incident at Khan Sheikhoun has provoked an emotional response around the world after images began to emerge showing civilian adults and children apparently suffering from the effects of chemical weapons. President Donald Trump has stated that the attack has totally changed his views towards the Syrian civil war, and may alter his intended strategy there.Although Western media immediately accused Bashar al-Assad of participating in a gas attack against his own people, the evidence indicates that the intended target was not immediately in a civilian area and was in fact a location where Syrian White Helmets were on the scene with rebel groups at what observers have claimed was a storage facility for conventional and chemical munitions. Additionally, evidence indicates that rebel groups may have had prior knowledge of the attack and knew that there was a risk of chemical weapons being unleashed. The attack also came in the aftermath of a trip by Senator John McCain to meet with groups known to associate with radical jihadist factions in Syria, at a time when the United States government has been engulfed in a power struggle between different political factions who disagree strongly over what should be appropriate policy in regards to the Syrian civil war.Evidence which has emerged in the aftermath of the attack at Khan Sheikhoun indicates that not only was the nature of the attack misreported by the media, but that certain individuals on the ground in Syria may have had foreknowledge of the attack up to several days before it happened. On April 3rd, 2017, an anti-Assad journalist tweeted that the next day he would be launching a media campaign to cover airstrikes on the Hama countryside, including the use of chemical weapons. It is not clear how the reporter was able to know that chemical weapons would be used an entire day before the attacks occurred.Observers further noted that on April 1st, 2017, a doctor on the ground in Khan Sheikhoun, Dr. Shajul Islam, had received several shipments of gas masks in the days running up to the chemical incident. The revelations on Twitter fueled speculation that opposition figures were aware of the chemical attack days before it actually happened, contesting the narrative that the Syrian government was responsible. Daily Mail has reported that Dr. Shajul Islam was at one point sought by the British government in connection with the abduction of two journalists in Syria, and security services have stated that Islam and his brother may have had ties to ISIS executioner “Jihadi John.”Additionally, footage from the scene of the incident taken by the Syrian White Helmets appears to show that their operatives were not assisting victims in a manner that was consistent with established protocol on how to handle sarin saturated bodies. Images appear to show that Syrian White Helmet operatives were handling purported sarin victims with their bare hands, rather than with gloves, which is necessary to prevent the rescuer being injured by the chemical themselves. They also appear to be using simple dust masks, which are not suitable protection in the event of a sarin attack.Disobedient Media has reported in January that the Syrian White Helmets are heavily supported by the United State government via USAID, are implicated in war crimes committed in Aleppo and other parts of Syria during the civil war and appear to have a large number of members who are involved with local Syrian militia groups and jihadist organizations. The White Helmets have also been caught staging rescue footage for propaganda purposes in the past.United Arab Emirates-based Al-Masdar News has also cited Twitter users who noted that photos of the Khan Sheikhoun attack appear to show storage facilities rather than a residential area and speculated that the White Helmets may have been using the location alongside rebel groups who were storing munitions in the area. The Russian Ministry of Defense have stated that the release of any chemicals was a result of a Syrian government airstrike against rebel supply depots in the area where chemical arms were being produced. (full Story)

The EU supports Erdogan because he's the 'master of the European gas tap​by Irina Slav | BusinessInsider.com

A lot of people in Europe are wondering why political leaders on the continent seem to be ready to agree with whatever Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says, and do anything he demands. Many resent Erdogan’s hand-twisting approach to the migrant crisis and worry about Turkey turning into a dictatorship, plain and simple.

Now, the attempted coup by the Turkish military over the weekend has become the latest event to highlight Turkey’s major role in the global energy market and the implications of any political shakeup in the country for this same market.The Bosphorus is where around 3 percent of daily global crude oil shipments pass, or some 3 million barrels. This may not be a lot in percentage terms, but for Europe it accounts for well over a quarter of its total crude oil imports. Europe imported 1.559 billion barrels from the former Soviet Union last year, or an average of 4 million barrels daily, according to European Commission figures.Besides the Bosphorus, Turkey is also home to two pipelines for Caspian and Iraqi crude, as well as the Southern Gas Corridor, which should provide Europe with an alternative source of natural gas in hopes of undermining the leading position of Russia’s Gazprom on the European market.There is also the Ceyhan port, Turkey’s main crude export terminal. This is where the two pipelines from Azerbaijan and Iraq end up, and this is also allegedly where a lot of ISIS oil ends up. In short, Turkey is already a major hub for oil and gas coming from the Middle East and Central Asia, and its importance in this respect will only grow as new projects—especially gas projects—come online.Then there is the Syrian war, and Turkey’s vested interest in it in light of plans for apipeline that would carry gas from Qatar to Turkey, and from there, on to Europe. This pipeline would serve the geopolitical interests of Saudi Arabia, helping it to get the upper hand over Iran, which, now that most of the economic sanctions against it have been lifted, is eager to return to the global energy market. It would also, some would argue, serve U.S. geopolitical interests by once againunderminingRussia’s dominance as gas supplier to the European continent.These geopolitical interests largely overlap with European ones. The European Union (EU) has made it abundantly clear that it wants a variety of energy supply sources. Natural gas is especially important as a cleaner and cheaper alternative to crude. Europe will need more gas in the years to come, and it doesn’t want it to come from Russia—or at least not so much of it

This is why Europe is tip-toeing around Erdogan; and this is why European leaders seem to dance to any tune Ankara’s boss plays. That’s also why European leaders were not too enthusiastic when the attempted coup failed, despite official declarations in support of Erdogan’s government. They did have enough dignity left to warn him to watch himself when dealing with the coup plotters; yet one cannot help but ask: what is Europe going to do if Erdogan decides to re-introduce the death penalty, especially for them? What is it going to do if he uses the coup to further curb civil rights and cement himself at the helm? Refuse to admit Turkey into the European Union? Not a big deal as far as Erdogan and his vision of a new imperial Turkey that dominates the region are concerned.Erdogan will in all likelihood be the new master of the European gas tap. It’s ironic how democratic Europe seems to be forever dependent on dictators for its energy, at least until it goes fully renewable, which is not going to happen any time soon.

Shocking Revelation: The Real Russian Scandal Surfaces - Clinton sold out 20 percent of America's Uranium supplies to Russia Fox news summary of how then Secretary Clinton's state department approved and benefited (by receiving millions through the corrupt Clinton Foundation) from a massive uranium deal - in which 20 percent of America's uranium was sold to the Russians through a Canadian company called Uranium One.

OBAMA’S LAST ARROGANT SPEECH​by Jon Bowne | Infowars.com President Barack Obama holds the record as the fourth worst economic President in US history. However, he is the only President to have never attained 3% growth in the two terms afforded him by the American people. Obama also holds the worst legislative record in modern US history. Signing only 1,227 bills in eight years. As the clock ticks closer To President Elect Donald Trump's inauguration, this is what the outgoing President Obama had to say for himself. Of course Democrats will blame Congress and an imagined segment of the American people for Obama's failures. Neglecting the key ingredient required of a successful American President. It's called awareness Mr. Obama. And leadership requires that you are actually aware of the rational concerns of the American people. Not the commands of a boardroom populated by a handful of foreign bankers.

Clinton insider, Larry Nichols, tears open the Clinton machine and exposes their colossal list of lies, deceptions and depravities. From Bill Clinton’s bizarre sexual history and involvement with trafficking cocaine into the U.S., to Hillary’s trail of death as secretary of state and her rise to the presidency: the blood is spilled as the gloves come off.

Secret Services coup revealed by former Agent and former Reagan, Bush & Carter Presidential Advisor Steve Pieczenik. Says Wikileaks emails did not come from Russians but from US intelligence agencies

HILLARY BRIBED FBI DEPUTY DIRECTOR MCCABE -- BY GIVING MCCABE'S WIFE (JILL) $500,000 TO RUN FOR STATE SENATOR (VA). THIS BRIBE WAS HANDED OVER BY HILLARY CRONY, TERRY MCAULIFFE (GOVERNOR), IN MARCH 2015, THE SAME MONTH FBI BEGAN INVESTIGATING HILLARY FOR MISHANDLING CLASSIFIED EMAILS ON HER HOME SERVER.

​The FBI's October surprise has thrown the 2016 election into November chaos. But an examination of the trigger mechanism behind this event reveals a deeper layer of manipulation by the media and financial interests behind the election. This is the GRTV Backgrounder with your host James Corbett. This report also includes an Interview with Prof. Michel Chossudovsky

ANOTHER '90s scandal returns to haunt the Clintons: billionaire accused of being front for Chinese Communist bid to influence Bill's 1996 election finally faces being questioned after years on the run ​by Alan Goodman | Dailymail.com

May 13, 2015Scottish Referendum Result Undoubtedly RiggedBy Niall Bradley | sott.netApparently terrorized by the fear-mongering tactics of the British establishment media, in the form of hysterical warnings about food price rises and "societal disintegration", the fiercely independent Scottish people voted to remain in the UK. Or so the British establishment media would have us believe. The official result matched the predictions of polls conducted by huge for-profit City of London market research companies. Prime Minister David Cameron declared that "this settles the independence debate for a generation." Case closed? I don't think so. We're being asked to believe that a majority of Scots voted 'Yes' to more austerity, 'Yes' to more wars in their name, 'Yes' to keeping nuclear weapons, 'Yes' to the continued theft of Scottish natural resources and 'Yes' to less democracy. If all of that sounds unbelievable, it's because it is:(full story)

[WCM: ... oh and by the way, we're also expected to believe the latest landslide victory by the SNP was a miraculous turn around from the referendum defeat? We would argue the SNP historic victory is in fact in perfect alignment to the actual unrigged outcome of the referendum. And fortunately for the SNP there was no tampering with the SNP vote count as the Tories gained a lot from the SNP landslide which took critical MP seats away from Labour]

Pathological Liar: Clinton Well Prepared to be Next US President Comment by WCM

In this YouTube video by Michael Armstrong , Hillary proves beyond a shadow of doubt by her own videoed contradictions she could easily be diagnosed as a pathological liar based on 13 minutes of well documented instances where she dramatically lies about her previously stated views on every topic from her trip to Bosnia to her email scandal. If she wasn't running for US President it would be laughable at best and criminal at worse.

August 16, 2016Hillary Clinton has grave health conditions - the public being kept in the dark by WCMPaul Joseph Watson of Infowars.com has put together a convincing youtube video (left) that clearly exposes Hillary's severe medical conditions that the western press continues to suppress or ignore altogether. Clinton's erratic head gestures, weird eye movements and emotional outbursts are reflective of flareups from a previous brain injury. Many are now speculating the severe decline of her health may prevent her from ever reaching election day before being forced to drop out of the presidential race. Credible source? The Secret Service actually leaked to Infowars.com that Hillary suffers from Parkinson disease or a similar ailment.

“Reform always provokes rage on the part of those who profit by the old order.” Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., ​The crisis of the Old Order who are the anti-Trump protesters besmirching the name of progressives by pretending to be progressives and by refusing to accept the outcome of the presidential election? They look like, and are acting worse than, the “white trash” that they are denouncing.I think I know who they are. They are thugs for hire and are paid by the Oligarchy to delegitimize Trump’s presidency in the way that Washington and the German Marshall Fund paid students in Kiev to protest the democratically elected Ukrainian government in order to prepare the way for a coup. The organization, change.org, which claims to be a progressive group, but might be a front, along with other progressive groups, for the Oligarchy, is destroying the reputation of all progressives by circulating a petition that directs the electors of the Electoral Collage to annul the election by casting their votes for Hillary. Remember how upset progressives were when Trump said he might not accept the election result if there was evidence that the vote was rigged? Now progressives are doing what they damned Trump for saying he might do under certain conditions.​The Western presstitutes used the protests in Kiev to delegitimize a democratically elected government and to set it up for a coup. The protest pay was good enough that non-Ukrainians came from nearby countries to participate in the protest in order to collect the money. At the time I posted the amounts paid daily to protesters. Reports came in to me from Eastern and Western Europe from people who were not Ukrainian but were paid to protest as if they were Ukrainians. The same thing is going on with the Trump protests. CNN reports that “for many Americans across the country, Donald Trump’s victory is an outcome they simply refuse to accept. Tens of thousands filled the streets in at least 25 US cities overnight.” This is the exact reporting that the Oligarchy desired from its presstitutes and got. I hope no one thinks that simultaneous protests in 25 cities were a spontaneous event. How did 25 independent protests manage to come up with the same slogans and the same signs on the same night following the election? What is the point of the protests, and what interest is served by them? As the Romans always asked, “who benefits?”There is only one answer: The Oligarchy and only the Oligarchy benefits.Trump is a threat to the Oligarchy, because he intends to stop the giveaway of American jobs to foreigners. The jobs giveaway, sanctified by the neoliberal junk economists as “free trade,” is one of the main reasons for the 21st century worsening of the US income distribution. Money that was formerly paid in middle class wages and salaries to American manufacturing employees and college graduates has been re-routed to the pockets of the One Percent.(Full article)

January 3, 2015Prince Andrew may have been secretly filmed with underage girl he is alleged to have abused Mirror | by Matthew DrakePapers filed against his pervert pal Jeffrey Epstein say he recorded VIP orgies he threw at his luxury homes using cameras hidden in the walls. (full story)

October 25, 2015Top 10 Ways the USA is the Most Corrupt Country in the WorldBy Juan Cole | juancole.comThose ratings that castigate Afghanistan and some other poor countries as hopelessly “corrupt” always imply that the United States is not corrupt. While it is true that you don’t typically have to bribe your postman to deliver the mail in the US, in many key ways America’s political and financial practices make it in absolute terms far more corrupt than the usual global South suspects. After all, the US economy is worth over $16 trillion a year, so in our corruption a lot more money changes hands. For instance, the rich are well placed to bribe our politicians to reduce taxes on the rich. This and other government policies has produced a situation where 400 American billionaires are worth $2 trillion, as much as the bottom 150 million Americans. That kind of wealth inequality hasn’t been seen in the US since the age of the robber barons in the nineteenth century. Both eras are marked by extreme corruption. (full story)

February 10, 2015REVEALED: NAMES OF SEVEN AMERICAN MUSLIM LEADERS AT WHITE HOUSE ‘ANTI-MUSLIM BIGOTRY’ MEETING Breitbart.com | by JORDAN SCHACHTELThe White House has still refused to name the “American Muslim leaders” with whom President Obama met to “discuss a range of domestic and foreign policy issues.” (full story)